hi all,
i received a nexus 5 today and promptly went to the neighborhood metropcs store and signed up for a new account with 60 $ unlimited plan. i planned this carefully for months :banghead: but it ended up somewhat disappointing.
i am leaving boost for bad service at my location. barely any signal, dropped call, missing/late text and horrible "so called 3G data". enter metropcs. for the last six months i carefully compared all factors etc. and was close to get a LG spirit for LTE (which is available at my location). one reason was that i tether around 6~9 GB a month and boost only allows 2.5GB at 3G (1200kbps ) rest at 300 kbps throttled. i was reluctant to get the spirit as by mid 2015 it will be done soo....well metro started selling GSM phones and you all know choices got murky. t-mobile has a "strong 3G" signal at my location so i was again weighing in between CDMA and GSM
to tether on spirit all is needed is an user agent switcher in browser, on the GSM phones its way more involved including rooting the phone. aaaannnddd nexus 5 became available :dancing: but it came with kitkat that made tethering much harder. not only rooting is necessary also some database editing, not to mention user agent switcher.:thrasher: anyway tying my hope to "strong 3G signal" i got the nexus 5.
today i realized strong 3G signal is just that, at least at my location. i ran 22 speedtests in all possible combo... highest was 1.49 mbps lowest .35 mbps. thats what i get on boost. maybe a tad lower. boost 35$ a month compared to metro 60$ a month :rofl: my signal jumps between 3G and H. unfortunately i fell in love with the phone its gorgeous .
only consolation is that i don't have to root my phone to tether, it works with just a user agent switcher even though its using t=mobile towers. so it seems as long as the apn says "fast.metropcs.com" it just works. i tried it without switcher but it loaded t-mobile upsale page.
what a bummer.
i received a nexus 5 today and promptly went to the neighborhood metropcs store and signed up for a new account with 60 $ unlimited plan. i planned this carefully for months :banghead: but it ended up somewhat disappointing.
i am leaving boost for bad service at my location. barely any signal, dropped call, missing/late text and horrible "so called 3G data". enter metropcs. for the last six months i carefully compared all factors etc. and was close to get a LG spirit for LTE (which is available at my location). one reason was that i tether around 6~9 GB a month and boost only allows 2.5GB at 3G (1200kbps ) rest at 300 kbps throttled. i was reluctant to get the spirit as by mid 2015 it will be done soo....well metro started selling GSM phones and you all know choices got murky. t-mobile has a "strong 3G" signal at my location so i was again weighing in between CDMA and GSM
to tether on spirit all is needed is an user agent switcher in browser, on the GSM phones its way more involved including rooting the phone. aaaannnddd nexus 5 became available :dancing: but it came with kitkat that made tethering much harder. not only rooting is necessary also some database editing, not to mention user agent switcher.:thrasher: anyway tying my hope to "strong 3G signal" i got the nexus 5.
today i realized strong 3G signal is just that, at least at my location. i ran 22 speedtests in all possible combo... highest was 1.49 mbps lowest .35 mbps. thats what i get on boost. maybe a tad lower. boost 35$ a month compared to metro 60$ a month :rofl: my signal jumps between 3G and H. unfortunately i fell in love with the phone its gorgeous .
only consolation is that i don't have to root my phone to tether, it works with just a user agent switcher even though its using t=mobile towers. so it seems as long as the apn says "fast.metropcs.com" it just works. i tried it without switcher but it loaded t-mobile upsale page.
what a bummer.